Tools

With PVGIS, you can retrieve meteorological indicators such as Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) data and heating/cooling degree days. While sensible defaults are provided for optional parameters, many settings are available to customize your analysis.

  • meteo Retrieve meteorological indicators and climate-derived metrics


    Subcommand Description
    introduction A short primer on meteorological tools
    tmy Calculate the TMY
    degree-days Calculate the cooling and heating degree days

We can see the list of available subcommands for meteo by running:

pvgis meteo --help
 Usage: pvgis meteo [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...                                 

 🌦 Typical Meteorological Year                                                  

╭─ Options ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --debug          Enable debug mode                                           │
│ --help           Show this message and exit.                                 │
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╭─ > Input : < Output ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --verbose  -v      <int>  Show details while executing commands [default: 0] │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Introduction ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ introduction  🛈 A short primer on the meteorological tools in PVGIS │
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╭─ Meteorology ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ tmy           🌦 Typical Meteorological Year                                  │
│ weighting     🌦 Weighting schemes for Typical Meteorological Year Yet not    │
│               complete!                                                      │
│ degree-days   🌦 Degree days                                                  │
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